Re: export of sys_call_table

["Brian F. G. Bidulock" <bidulock@openss7.org>]

Andi,

On Fri, 04 Oct 2002, Andi Kleen wrote:

> "Brian F. G. Bidulock" <bidulock@openss7.org> writes:
> 
> 
> > 					   void *dataptr, int band, int flags)
> > 	{
> > 		int ret =3D -ENOSYS;
> > 		read_lock(&streams_call_lock);
> 
> I don't think you really want to use any spinlocks this way. They would
> make sleeping impossible and you could never legally do a copy_from/to_user
> in your system call. And how else would you access dataptr ? 
> 
> More likely you want an atomic_inc(&modulecounter) or perhaps a rw
> semaphore.

read_lock and write_lock are a rw semaphores, aren't they?

--brian

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